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Has anyone tried running Colossi from the Colossus of the Drylands Campaign Frame? I'm gearing up for a short 3-shot campaign, and the...

Yeah, idk, this sort of thing happens a lot with the <30 crowd I play games with a lot.

DO you think people are allowed to ask a question though? Maybe posed as reflection, or suggesting a point of view, or reminding the...

You've never had a player (or yourself) go "oh, you know what? wow, that's hard to say exactly how CharName would take this. Let me roll...

I would love to see a Lost Mine of Phandelver-style adventure set in and around an Outlands gate town, personally. At low levels...

Have.. you never played with somebody that said something like “ohhh, well you know what? I think that TheirCharName is actually deeply...

I look it as the simplest model is simply playing yourself, with the character as a game piece, and you play to beat the combat/module...

My definition would be this. If the final resolution of a character's mental state and decision-making is always made by the player...

There's been a lot of that in this thread - making up terrible (hypothetical) systems, then showing with great fanfare that they're...

This is because what you’re describing isn’t an example of thoughtful design. You’re just kind of taking an instance of D&D play and...

There’s a lot of games out there, with wildly divergent play styles. My preference is to try as many as possible. And I think you get...

My ideal timeframe and frequency is twice a month for 1.5-2 years. I find that’s an adequate time to pursue a campaign to completion...

Heh. In all honestly, I don’t think I could run the same campaign for a decade even. I understand the appeal of the “I’ve been running...

In my experience, both as GM and as player, it does. My actual point is that I think GM burnout--a reason given by other posters for...

Not even for one moment. Do GMs actually run games they don't want to run? Does that actually happen? I don't know about others, but you...